Böcker i Contemporary Dramatists-serien

Living alone on a drab London council estate, Abi has long since lost sight of the good things in life, until an old friend takes her back to her glorious past in Jamaica as the greatest all-rounder of the No Boys Cricket Club. Also includes "Starstruck" and "Lift Off".

This volume contains three plays by Arnold Wesker: "Chicken Soup with Barley", "Roots" and "I'm Talking About Jerusalem".

In the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series, this collection includes The War Plays (Red Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, Great Peace) and Choruses from After the Assassinations. Includes a commentary by the author.

A collection of plays by the author of the screenplay of "The Long Good Friday". "Gimme Shelter" is a set of three interlinked plays about violence. "Barbarians" is set in Lewisham and looks at the effects of unemployment on young men.

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer)

This collection of plays by Terry Johnson is part of the "Methuen Drama" series. Terry Johnson is the author of "Amabel", "Days Here So Dark", "Tuesday's Child", "Imagine Drowning", "Hysteria" and "Unfinished Business".

In the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series this collection contains Nagy's best known plays; "Weldon Rising", "Disappeared", "The Strip", and "Butterfly Kiss".

John Guare is one of America's darkest post-war playwrights

"Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" (Newsweek)

The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan

"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel

This collection of Anthony Neilson's plays contains: "Normal"; "Penetrator"; "Year of the Family"; "The Night Before Christmas"; and "The Censor".

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time

Includes the plays HER BREAKING HEART, NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU, THE TWO MARIAS and ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, with an introduction by the author. Lavery was Resident Writer at the Unicorn Theatre for Children and has written many plays for children and adults and some cabarets.

This trilogy of 'Devon Plays' from the mid-1990s examines rural life and its claustrophobia with poignancy and humour. The Dearly Beloved won the 1993 Writers Guild Award; What I Did in the Holidays was nominated for the 1995 Writers Guild Award; and Flesh and Blood was produced at the Lyric Theatre, in 1996.

A collection of Mark Ravenhill's plays: "Shopping and Fucking"; "Faust"; Handbag"; and "Some Explicit Polaroids".

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer)

The volume contains plays from the '70s and '80s, which offer a wide ranging critique of society and human relationships. Included are "The Bundle", "Human Condition", "Jackets" and "In the Company of Men". The volume also includes Bond's notes on postmodernism.

Three plays by multi-award winning playwright, Patrick Marber: an enthralling close-up of the demons which drive compulsive gamblers (Dealer's Choice); a reimagining of Strindberg's Miss Julie set on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945,and in Closer one of the best plays about sexual politics in the language.

This collection of Poliakoff's plays from the 1970s includes his first major success, "Clever Soldiers", and "Hitting Town", "City Sugar", "Shout Across the River", "American Days" and "Strawberry Fields".

Volume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print 14 of his legendary short and full-length plays from the 60s, including "The Unseen Hand", "Chicago", "Icarus's Mother", "Red Cross", "Cowboys", "Operation Sidewinder" and "Killer's Head".

This volume includes the "Evening Standard" Award-winning play "Talent", and Victoria Wood's other stage play "Good Fun", both premiered at the Sheffield Crucible. Alongside these plays are three TV scripts, including the acclaimed "Pat and Margaret".

This volume includes the plays: "Inventing a New Colour"; "Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens"; "A Bucket of Eels"; "The Blue Ball". Paul Godfrey has worked as a director in repertory and small scale touring, and he directed his own plays at the Royal National Theatre.

The author is widely studied on school and university syllabuses and this collection of four of his plays includes two which were premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1969 and 1970 and one which will premiere in October. By the author of "Saville", which won the Booker Prize.

Three plays by comic dramatist Michael Frayn, compiled as a follow-up edition to "Michael Frayn Plays: One". Included is Frayn's adaptation of Chekhov's first play, here called "Wild Honey". "Balmoral" and "Benefactors" are touched by politics and social indictments of people and systems.

A collection of plays by Sue Townsend, including "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" adapted from the novel, "Wombergang", set in the waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic, "Bazaar & Rummage" about a community jumble sale, "Groping for Words", and "The Great Celestial Cow", about Indian immigrants.

This collection of Jim Cartwright's plays includes "Road", "Bed", "Two" and "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice".

A collection of four plays by Willy Russell. The plays are "Educating Rita", "Breezeblock Park", "Our Day Out" and "Stags and Hens". All the plays are concerned with working class people striving to enjoy life or improve themselve

A third collection of Peter Barnes plays which reflect his social satire and anarchic mix of comedy and tragedy. As one of Britain's most controversial dramatists, he repeatedly challenges the parameters of theatrical convention.

"Passionately satirical and sharply observant, he is one of the most interesting of our playwrights" (Sunday Telegraph)